Arts for Brighouse, with support from a National Lottery grant, created an exciting heritage project, ‘My Generation, Brighouse and Rastrick Baby Boomers – Images, Stories, Objects’. Our Heritage Lottery Funded project focused on shared memories, images and objects from baby boomers who live in Brighouse and Rastrick.

In December 2018, artist Harriet Lawton ran an illustration workshop at Brighouse High School. Harriet’s practice responds to objects and collections through a variety of media including print, textiles and ceramics. She encouraged students to explore the significance of their own objects, and communicate object stories through drawing, photography and writing. They then used these skills to construct narratives in response to the Baby Boomer (My Generation) participants images and objects.

The students then went on to design ‘New Generation Objects’ which took elements of their own objects and the Baby Boomers images, stories and objects to create a new illustration.

Jennie Collage

Helen Collage

Margaret & Helen Collage

Working on the collages

Nobuo Collage

Working on the collages

Album Collection

Book Cover Collection

'Alexa' Collection

'Disney' Pin Collection

Bauble Collection

Camping Collection

Lancaster to Brighouse

Christmas Bauble

Grandad's T-Shirt

Scottish Teddy

'Boofie'

Great-Gran's Teddy

Cup

Bunny

'Chopin' Boot

Book Cover

Clock Tower

'Boofle Beat'

About the Heritage Lottery Fund: Thanks to National Lottery players, we invest money to help people across the UK explore, enjoy and protect the heritage they care about – from the archaeology under our feet to the historic parks and buildings we love, from precious memories and collections to rare wildlife. www.hlf.org.uk